NAIROBI, 30 April (IRIN) - Ambassador
Jean-David Levitte, the French diplomat heading the current UN Security
Council mission to the Great Lakes region, on Monday encouraged all parties
to the recently-concluded inter-Congolese dialogue (ICD) to be "flexible"
in their demands and to agree to hold discussions on substantive issues
and the steps to achieve reconciliation, Radio France Internationale (RFI)
reported.

INTRODUCTION
This is the first issue in 2002 of this quarterly report prepared by the FAO Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) on the food supply situation, cereal import and food aid requirements for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. The report is designed to provide the latest analysis and information on the food situation in these countries to governments, international organizations and other institutions engaged in humanitarian operations.

NAIROBI, 29 April (IRIN) - The Ugandan
government has no official plans to subject a group of returnees recently
expelled from Tanzania, where they had been living, to military and political
training, a senior official in the Office of the Prime Minister has told
IRIN.

KINSHASA, April 29 (AFP) - The government
of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday ruled out an extension
of peace talks designed to end a four-year civil war, saying a deal it
reached with one rebel group was final.

KAMPALA, April 28 (AFP) - Up to
60 mourners have been shot dead in southern Sudan by suspected Ugandan
rebels who forced them to eat a dead body they were about to bury, the
Ugandan army charged Sunday.

Army spokesman Major Shaban Bantariza
told AFP that the attack took place Friday on the ranges of mountain Agoro,
which straddles the Uganda, Sudan border.

"The LRA (Lord's Resistance Army)
attacked them as they were about to bury a person," Bantariza said,
adding that Ugandan forces battling the rebels in the area gave the report.

Khartoum (dpa) - Rebels of the Lord
Resistance Army (LRA) are militarily clearing their way as they flee into
Imatong mountains to avoid a Uganda army offensive against their bases
in southern Sudan.

Dr Theophilous Ochang Lotti, chairman
and commander-in-chief of the Equatoria Defence Force (EDF), said Friday
that the LRA moving in thousands with heavy armaments attacked and dislodged
the EDF from their base at Katire 30 kilometres south of Torit town on
April 23.

NAIROBI, 26 April (IRIN) - Uganda's
recent vote in favour of a UN resolution expressing concern over the human
rights situation in neighbouring Sudan, will have little effect on the
good relations currently enjoyed by the two countries, government officials
in Kampala have said.

MR. BORGIDA: And joining me now
live from the Brookings Institution in Washington, Peter Singer. He has
studied the subject of child soldiers, who now seem to be involved in a
wide variety of movements and terrorist organizations. Thank you so much
for joining us, Mr. Singer. We appreciate your time.

Talk to us a bit about who child soldiers
are. Define the term for us, please - an age perhaps?

NAIROBI, 25 April (IRIN) - Uganda's
third deputy premier, James Wapakhabulo, is in the Rwandan capital Kigali,
to meet President Paul Kagame, an official in Rwanda confirmed to IRIN
on Thursday. He added, however, that he had no details of Wapakhabulo's
programme.